{"id":9766,"date":"2011-04-19T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=9766"},"modified":"2011-04-16T13:04:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T17:04:50","slug":"google-places-schwag-schwag-and-more-schwag-in-more-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/google-places-schwag-schwag-and-more-schwag-in-more-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Places Schwag, Schwag and More Schwag in More Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Google Places <del datetime=\"2011-04-16T14:46:23+00:00\">with Hotpot<\/del> promotion that <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-markets-hotpot-breaks-its-own-reviews-rules-58357\">started<\/a> in Portland in December, 2010 is now ongoing in four additional cities: Austin, Las Vegas, Madison and Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of the promotion, any business in any of those cities that claims their listing is eligible for a business kit that  includes Google bling. Apparently several businesses are having difficulties with the ordering process and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/Places\/thread?tid=4a36139f6e067eb9&amp;hl=en\">reported<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/forum\/p\/Places\/thread?tid=0567de2835071f6a&amp;hl=en&amp;fid=0567de2835071f6a0004a109858ce10e\">problems<\/a> in the forums.<\/p>\n<p>I was curious about the process and problems and managed to finagle an order via the online catalog. Here is a slide show of oder process and the (many) items  available. Many of the same items <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmihm.com\/blog\/google\/hotpot-portland-update\/\">available<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/redesignmobile.com\/2011\/02\/19\/google-hotpot-takes-a-stand-in-portland\/\">Portland<\/a> are also available in the four other cities although it is not clear if Google is using every promotional tactic that they used in there.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Google was out of stock on the neon signs and the fridge magnets but they apparently still have a good stock of the fortune cookies. Not sure exactly what they might be predicting&#8230;.:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/google-schwag\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9767\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-04-16 at 10.45.09 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-10.45.09-AM-520x338.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-10.45.09-AM-520x338.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-10.45.09-AM-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Screen-shot-2011-04-16-at-10.45.09-AM.png 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Google Places with Hotpot promotion that started in Portland in December, 2010 is now ongoing in four additional cities: Austin, Las Vegas, Madison and Charlotte. As a part of the promotion, any business in any of those cities that claims their listing is eligible for a business kit that includes Google bling. Apparently several &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-hotpot","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9774,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions\/9774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}